Oh, and DirecTV DOESN'T claim that they have a 1TB drive? Talk about calling the kettle black...

...The 2TB drive is used for a myriad of features including 1.25TB user storage and the advertised number of hours of programming that can be stored is accurate. Who needs to get up to speed?

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I understand what you’re saying and you have a valid point on both sides. And you’re correct that both companies are are misrepresenting the space available.

However, a 2TB drive delivering some 312 hours of MPEG4 HD in the Hopper and a 1TB drive delivering some 225 hours in the Genie...Genie is using ≈90% of its advertised storage space vs. 62% for Hopper.

If I put a 2TB drive in an HR34/44 it would have a capacity of ≈475 hours. This yields more than fifty percent more capacity in the same drive size as the Hopper or about 95% of a 2TB drive used for recordings.

Oh, and DirecTV DOESN'T claim that they have a 1TB drive? Talk about calling the kettle black...

...The 2TB drive is used for a myriad of features including 1.25TB user storage and the advertised number of hours of programming that can be stored is accurate. Who needs to get up to speed?

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The deception of actual available storage by Dish is amplified by an exhorbetent rate in comparison, especially when they make such a major deal of it....only to find out its nothing even close to resembling a 2 to 1 ratio. That's the point.

Just to be a devil's advocate here, isn't Dish touting that storage probably based on the fact you can turn off the Prime Time Anytime service and it won't be recording all those shows, which would give you more space? Maybe thats what they are doing? But the same time saying that Prime Time Anytime is there is a bit of trickeration.

Just to be a devil's advocate here, isn't Dish touting that storage probably based on the fact you can turn off the Prime Time Anytime service and it won't be recording all those shows, which would give you more space? Maybe thats what they are doing? But the same time saying that Prime Time Anytime is there is a bit of trickeration.

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The DVR handling space by utilizing quotas. I posted my attempt to decipher it last year.

Just to be a devil's advocate here, isn't Dish touting that storage probably based on the fact you can turn off the Prime Time Anytime service and it won't be recording all those shows, which would give you more space? Maybe thats what they are doing? But the same time saying that Prime Time Anytime is there is a bit of trickeration.

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Turning off PTAT does not give the space back to the user. The user accessible amount will stay the same.